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How to Create a Festive Tree from Pine Cones and Resin

In this unique Christmas woodturning project, pine cones and resin come together to form a shimmering holiday tree that glows ...
The Gazette

Pine cones aren't just decoration. They're tools trees use to survive.

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...
NPR

How to save a slow growing tree species

Stretching from British Columbia, Canada down to parts of California and east to Montana, live the whitebark pine. The tree grows in subalpine and timberline zones — elevations anywhere from 4,000 to ...
SFGate

How the largest pine tree in the world was discovered in Yosemite

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade journey, ...